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* 	REPLICATION MATERIAL 
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* "How Large Are The Political Costs of Fiscal Austerity?"
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*		by 				 			 	  
* Eric Arias and David Stasavage
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*		in							 	  
* 	The Journal of Politics			 	  
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This readme.txt file details all the materials provided here to reproduce numerical results from the tables in both the article's main body and in the appendix.  

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**	SOFTWARE USED
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Stata 14.2 MP. 

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** FILES INCLUDED
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description


*** FILES & DATA SOURCES

"Data.dta"
	- This is the primary dataset needed to replicate the core results in the main text and the online appendix. 
	
"TableA17.dta"
	- Country-year data needed to replicate Appendix Table A17.



*** SCRIPTS & REPLICATION CODE

The replication materials contain one Stata (.do) files. To replicate the article’s results, first be sure to save the replication files in the same folder and set Stata’s working directory to that folder. 

Note that the do file uses some ado files that do not come by default in Stata. If necessary, they are listed, with code to install them, before opening the data.

For quick reference, we have listed the tables and figures to be replicated with headers, and whenever possible, following the order presented in the paper and online appendix.

Note that the code relies, at different points, on delimiters as well as preserve/restore commands.

"Analysis.do"
	- This is the main replication do file.